No gag orders, please, let civil servants speak out

Some very interesting issues have been raised in the article ‘The Officer Raj’ (IE, October 15). The functioning of our democracy is incumbent on the effectiveness of its institutions — the executive, the legislature and the judiciary. It may be useful, therefore, to consider the inter-relationship of these institutions. It is also appropriate to consider, in the context of the civil services, what good norms of behaviour are.

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